Combined ashtray and cigarette extinguisher



May 3, 1955 u LOW] 2,707,473

COMBINED ASHTRAY AND CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Filed 001;. 4, 1950 2Sheets-$heet l INVENTOR. LE0 LOW! May 3, 1955 L. LOW! COMBINED ASHTRAYAND CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Filed Oct. 4 1950 United States PatentCOMBINED ASHTRAY AND CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Leo Lowi, Asbury Park, N. J.Application October 4, 1950, Serial No. 189,080 1 Claim. (Cl. 131-235)This invention relates to new and useful improvements in molded glassash trays and more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel andvaluable ash tray and cigarette extinguisher which also may be of markedutility as an advertising device, and which, furthermore, incorporatesimproved cigarette snuifers, and which, in addition, is not only ofone-piece construction, but is of a contour such that it may be readilyproduced in a mold cavity without the aid of cores or other specialinserts.

A further object of the invention is to obtain all the advantages justabove mentioned and at the same time to have the new ash tray includeglassportions so disposed that the ash tray may be rested directly on atable or the like, or be carried by a suitable holder, as in motor cars,or on trains, buses and at other public places.

A feature of the invention is that two of said glass portions areoppositely located pintle-like projections, and two others thereof,these spaced apart in a line substantially perpendicular to thedirection of spacing of said pintle-like projections, are so shaped asto present for mations employable either as stop elements or as handle vor finger-piece instrumentalities.

All said projections are so shaped and arranged that they are adapted tocoact with a simple, eificient and inexpensive holder incorporating askeletal cradle relative to which the ash tray is carried so as to berotatable about said pintle-like projections for dumping out accumulatedashes. In this case, the other two projected glass portions in coactionwith the holder provide a means whereby normally the ash tray isprevented from accidental overturning. At the same time, however, theholder is so constituted that when desired a part thereof may be readilyresiliently temporarily displaced relative to the remainder of theholder thereby to render the last-named means inoperative and so permitrotation of the ash tray for discharge of its ashes. When, on the otherhand, the ash tray is rested directly on a table or the like, the twoprojections last referred to serve as conveniently graspablefinger-pieces to facilitate lifting the ash tray.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view showing one embodiment of the ash tray.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section, taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view.

Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the ash tray as seen from the right ofFig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentarydetail section, taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a modified form of ash tray.

with properly located parts Fig. 8 is also a view similar to Fig. 1 ofanother form of ash tray.

Fig. 9 is a partial diagrammatic view in perspective, wherein the ashtray of Figs. 1-6 is outlined in dot and dash, and wherein salient partsof a holder of a kind hereinabove referred to are also shown.

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of one complete form of holder.

Fig. 11 is a front elevation of the holder shown in Fig. 10 with thetray of Figs. 1-6 shown in dot and dash lines.

Fig. 12 is a fragmentary detail section, taken on the line 12-12 of Fig.10.

7 Referring now to the drawings more in detail, an ash tray 20 accordingto the invention is of elliptical main outline as shown. A centralcircular portion 21 thereof is shaped as illustrated in Fig. 3 toprovide a magnifying glass the upper convexly rounded face 22 of whichconstitutes the principal floor portion of a main ash cup 23. The bottomface of the magnifying glass is plane, for securement thereto, as by asuitable adhesive, of a sheet element 24 carrying an advertisingmessage, such as the phrase, seen in Fig. 1, Smoke Smiths Mixture. Theash tray may be made of glass, plastic or any other material, with orwithout magnifying features.

The ash tray 20 has higher bottom portions 25, and a circular invertedrecess portion 26, at the top of which the bottom plane face of themagnifying glass is located. The ash tray 20 also has coplanar lowerbottom portions 27, on which the ash tray is supported when it isdirectly rested on a table or the like. As will be noted, the said twobottom portions 25 are alike and symmetrically arranged; and the saidtwo bottom portions 27 are also alike and symmetrically arranged.

Said bottom portions 27 are of such size as to provide glass materialfor having formed therein the lower portions of an arcuately extendingline of cigarette snuifers each of which is of a different diameter fromthat of an adjoining one. As herein shown, there are four of saidsnuifers 28 along each of said arcuate lines. A particular feature ofthe snuffers is the formation of an annular bead around the upper openend of each thereof, the bead for each of the snuifers of maximumdiameter being designated 29.

The upper surface of the ash tray 20, at opposite ends thereof, has aplurality of channels 30; each of these desirably of a size toaccommodate a cigar. Diagonally disposed relative to said channels 30are symmetrically placed substantially triangular recesses 31, toestablish outer wall portions 32, transverse to which are a plurality ofchannels 33, each of these being of a size to accommodate a cigarette.

The ash tray is provided with a pair of diametrically opposedpintle-like projections 34, and at right angles to the latter withfinger piece-like projections 35.

When the ash tray is rested directly on a table or the like, theprojections present convenient handles whereby the ash tray may bereadily grasped for lifting, re moval, overturning to discharge ashes,etc. When the ash tray is to be carried in a holder, the pintle-likeprojections 34 serve to mount the ash tray rotatably, while the saidprojections 35 are so placed as to be cooperable of the holder wherebyto prevent accidental rotation of the ash tray relative to the holder.

Referring in this connection now particularly to Fig. 9, one form ofholder comprises a cradle-like skeletal construction incorporating, foracting as journals for the projections 34, a pair of aligned sleeves orcollars 36, supported, for example, on inverted V-frarne portions asindicated at 37; with said holder also incorporating a pair ofupstanding parts 38 adapted to bear at their upper ends against theunder sides of the projections 35. The construction is such that theframe portions 37 can be sprung slightly to spread the collars 36further apart and thus to facilitate engagement of the pintles 34 in thelatter. In like manner the upstanding portions 38, can be sprungslightly to provide clearance for the handles 35. This permits of theash tray being rotated through an angle of approximately 180 to spillits contents.

In Figs. 1012, a holder of similar construction is shown. It will benoted that the collars 36 these corresponding to the collars 36 and 36,are supported on inverted V-frames comprising end portions of like bentwire members 40. Said members are made of spring wire, with theiropposite ends flattened as indicated at 40 for secure anchorage, as bybrazing, welding or the like, to the collars 36. The U-shaped portions38 of said members 40 are equivalents of the upstanding parts 38 of Fig.9 Due to the resiliency of the wire of the members 40 the collars 36 maybe readily abnormally temporarily spaced, for mounting and demountingthe ash tray; and, also due to the resiliency of said wire, either ofthe upstanding parts 33 may be temporarily displaced, to permitdeliberate rotation of the ash tray. Thus, upon forcing said part 33 toits broken line position in Fig. 11, and manual raising of theprojection 35 ,at the right in Fig. 11 is permitted thereby causing theash tray to be swung through substantially 180 in a counterclockwisedirection.

The collar 36 shown at the left in Fig. 10 is made rather long and witha fairly widely distended end portion 41, which end portion is recessedand threaded for taking the shank of a screw 42, Thereby said collar,and consequently the entirety of the holder, may be mounted on such asupport such as the escutcheon plate 43 having a suitable number ofscrew-holes or the like such as indicated at 44, whereby said plate orthe like may be afiixed to a wall. When the plate 43 or the like is notused, the holder rotatably carrying the ash tray as already described,may be rested directly on a table or the like with the uniplanarly lyingbottom stretches 45 of the bent wire members 40 contacting the table.

In Fig. 7 the parts to which are applied reference numerals with singleprimes added, and in Fig. 8 the parts 4 to which are applied referencenumerals with double primes added, correspond, respectively, to theparts to which have been applied the same reference numerals but withoutprimes.

While I have illustrated and described preferred embodiments of myinvention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to theprecise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to allchanges and modifications coming within the scope of the invention asdefined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

A molded glass ash tray shaped to present a substantially centralprincipal ash cup, a pair of like pluralities of well-like depressionsalongside said cup, each of said depressions being formed as a cigarettesnufier, a wire frame support comprising outwardly diverging endsections, sleeve bearing means secured to said end sections at the pointwhere they diverge, and vertical sections between said end sectionsconverging together, said ash tray having fingerlike projections, saidash tray being pivotally mounted in said bearing means and supported bysaid fingerlike projections on said vertical sections to prevent tippingthereof.

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